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Interview with Vita Nuova CEO Michael Jeffrey

Posted by timothy on from the first-8-plans-fell-through dept.

Little-Fat-Sheep writes: "Lots of talk on Slashdot and elsewhere lately about the future of Operating Systems being massively distributed. Well, the technology exists for years now in the two operating systems offered by Vita Nuova: Plan9 and Inferno. OSNews features today an interview with Vita Nuova's CEO, Michael Jeffrey."

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  1. A correction and thoughts by clump · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One little nit-pick is that the article mentions both Plan9 and Inferno are not Open Source. Also, its important not to look at the significance of these operating systems as in current market saturation, but what new and exciting features they can bring.

    Regarding the 'killer platform', im not sure that Holy Grail exists. However the world proves daily that implementation is more important than design, so just pick what works best for you.

  2. Re:A correction of the correction by dallen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Correction: plan nine ISN'T open source according to Richard Stallman.

    - the plan nine license requires all changes be sent back to them;

    - you (possibly) can't sell your code for a profit;

    - lots of other problems with the license. (see here for Stallman's take on it.)

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